[PATCH v2 23/23] MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david at kernel.org
Thu Jan 15 22:25:08 AEDT 2026


On 1/15/26 10:39, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:20:13AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
>> Nowadays, there is nothing virtio-balloon specific anymore about these
>> files, the basic infrastructure is used by multiple memory balloon
>> drivers.
>>
>> For now we'll route it through Andrew's tree, maybe in some future it
>> makes sense to route this through a separate tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david at kernel.org>
> 
> Assuming below fixed + Michael's concern addressed, LGTM so:
> 
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
> 
>> ---
>>   MAINTAINERS | 12 ++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index de8f89ca1149f..b974f8c1c2225 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -16454,6 +16454,16 @@ T:	quilt git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new
>>   F:	mm/
>>   F:	tools/mm/
>>
>> +MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON
>> +M:	Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>> +M:	David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
> 
> david at kernel.org you mean? ;)

Maybe I just want all the patches to go to /dev/null soon? ;)

The following on top:


 From 3d344330b1ff6088582fe8e3bbff49d1557eba22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david at kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:23:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixup: MAINTAINERS: move memory balloon infrastructure to
  "MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON"

CC the virt list and use the proper mail address.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david at kernel.org>
---
  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b974f8c1c2225..11720728d92f2 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -16456,8 +16456,9 @@ F:	tools/mm/
  
  MEMORY MANAGEMENT - BALLOON
  M:	Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
-M:	David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
+M:	David Hildenbrand <david at kernel.org>
  L:	linux-mm at kvack.org
+L:	virtualization at lists.linux.dev
  S:	Maintained
  W:	http://www.linux-mm.org
  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
-- 
2.52.0


Thanks!

-- 
Cheers

David


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